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Originally Posted by Tervuren
I work up the street from a jet engine turbine plant. Their building is huge. They had a blade let loose in testing, punched a hole through the building and took out a car in the parking lot several hundred feet away. They now have a concrete bunker in their building for testing.
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As I was reading your post I was thinking, no way would anyone full speed or over-speed test one of these unless it was in a vacuum bunker.
We have a pair of P&W aero-derivative engines in the plant we use for cogeneration.
They get swapped out and sent back to the factory for complete overhaul after 4000 run hours.
This one didn't make it that long.
